Call for Ideas for Hackathon Projects

[Patrick Hastings]

We are aiming to run out first Hackathon on Friday 19th September through to Sunday 21st September at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce.

We already have ideas for a django website for the round the world in 80 days.

Does anyone else have any other ideas for projects they would like to do.

[Louis Galipeau]

Will probably not be able to attend though considering there's been a lot of discussions on how to make hackathons as inclusive as possible some people have put this project together as a general (and evolving via github) Code of Conduct:

The Hack(athon) Code of Conduct

http://hackcodeofconduct.org/

You can either use it outright or fork it to use as a base to make suit the needs of the event(s).

[Beckett Simmons]

Ideas? A document has been started here: https://openbermuda.atlassian.net/wiki/display/MEET/Peace+Day+Hackathon+%3A%3A+September+19th%2C+20th%2C+21st

I've always wanted to create a python chat bot. It's pretty high level, but once you get the ground work down it's a lot of fun.

Also, what is the status about support infrastructure? Like all of us without laptops (maybe just me. (I wonder if I could try to live off the family Windows laptop for a weekend.)) we would need to setup our own little network, right? I've got a 24 port switch and a Cisco router with dd-wrt on it. If that helps at all.

        Beckett

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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:50:31 -0700
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Subject: Call for Ideas for Hackathon Projects

We are aiming to run out first Hackathon on Friday 19th September through to Sunday 21st September at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce.

We already have ideas for a django website for the round the world in 80 days.

Does anyone else have any other ideas for projects they would like to do.

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[Beckett Simmons]

Just wanted to post an idea from my father.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Linux But Were Afraid To Ask

• Installing Linux
• Bring a machine and we will teach you to install Linux
• Using Linux
• Installing additional software
• Using server apps

Anyone up for that?

       Beckett

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Subject: RE: Call for Ideas for Hackathon Projects
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 02:29:59 +0000

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[Nick Hoskins]

I spent the whole weekend "tweaking my box" (just switched to awesome-wm).

When is the next one.

I have ten xubuntu lenovo laptops from Code Tuna which I would be prepared to bring along.

On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:50:32 UTC-3, Patrick Hastings wrote:

[swf...@gmail.com]

Would love to hear about the awesome-wm.

We had a great weekend -- will try and get a blog or two written over the next couple of days about what we got up to.

Next meet is Wednesday 1st October I believe at the Chamber of Commerce.

Thinking that talking about some of the projects that we worked on over the weekend would be a good subject.

Learnt a lot about doing these things + had fun along the way.

John

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[Nick Hoskins]

If you are familiar with any of the developer wms its quite similiar to the i3 wm

I love it. With vimium on my browser, vim commands in my bash, and awesome as my wm I have no need for the mousepad, whatsoever.

The feeling of freedom it gives you is quite something. Never having to move my hands from the home row not only makes you faster but it also does soemthing to the way you interact with the machine.

I find the tiled layout far superior to the standard floating set up deployed by ubuntu and kde.

I also really appreciate just how much faster the computer is to start up. (mind you I go with straight awesome, no Desktop Environment or login manager so it might be a little faster because of that)

If you want to get your fingers wet, go google arch awesome and follow the directions there. I can just say that I now hate using xubuntu and I never thought Id be saying that...

[swf...@gmail.com]

I used to use ratpoison for a while + over the years have used way too many different window managers.

Looking for something less resource hungry than unity ;)

I don't think there is a meet this Wednesday, next one is October 1st, would be good to chat about this then.

John

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[Louis Galipeau]

Unity is terrible in terms of performance.

xfce is what I'm currently using and its great.

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[Nick Hoskins]

In terms of performance, I don't believe there is currently anything more efficient than the Awesome WM.

Thats assuming you dont consider Tmux a WM...

[John Gill]

I have been using awesome the last couple of days.

Decided to "discover" the interface rather than read the docs, it is a bit like playing an adventure game with your windows: press a key and see what happens.

So far it is blazing fast and living up to its name.

John